I truly admire the viewpoint of “Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them”(126). The narrator explains that Eddie’s father died or ‘slipped away’, as the nurse reported. However, to Eddie his father seemed to had let go of him well before his death, so Eddie never actually toiled with letting go of him. However, Eddie felt resentment for his father ‘trapping’ him and sustaining that emotion through his life made letting go truly difficult for him. This quote speaks to me in a new light now that I’m a senior. Before I would have just said that parents have a hard time letting their kids grow up and start to become more independent, although now I’m realizing how parents truly struggle with this. Mine are having a hard
